{"product_id":"george-jones-the-life-and-times-of-a-honky-tonk-legend-1480355828","title":"George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1480355828\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Allen, Bob\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Joness nearly 60-year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generation of singers, including Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, and Trace Adkins. As Merle Haggard said of Jones in Rolling Stone magazine, ?is voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made.?oness saga is a larger-than-life tale of rags to riches and back to rags again. He was born into near poverty in a backwater patch of East Texas. His formal education ended early; by his early teens, he was singing on the streets of Beaumont, Texas, for tips. After beginning to record in the mid-1950s Jones became, by sheer dint of his vocal prowess, one of Nashvilles most celebrated honky-tonk singers. But from the start, Joness life, as often reflected in his music, was shaped by misdirection, chaos, turmoil, and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for alcohol. Fame and adulation seemed to merely intensify his personal travails.Joness story has a relatively happy ending. With the help of fourth wife Nancy during the final decade and a half of his life, he got clean and sober, was feted as a much-revered elder statesman for the music, and, by most accounts, found peace of mind at long last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePages: 338\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325440229664,"sku":"NEW1480355828","price":23.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71JIBvi9NGL.jpg?v=1773156104","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/george-jones-the-life-and-times-of-a-honky-tonk-legend-1480355828","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}